David M Carroll

The review from the Boston Globe

But Carroll's is a science suffused with emotion, intimacy with particular creatures in particular environments, and with that most unscientific of words - love... By sitting still and watching the nonhuman world, (he) has become familiar with the greater cycles, with the concept of time and patience or 'endurance', as he calls it, almost unheard of in our culture. This shows in the artful drawings and journal pages, rending in exact detail the animal and plant life he writes about.

...By revealing the intimate life of the wetlands, of a single vernal pool for instance, 'Swampwalker's Journal' puts a face, or faces, on the creatures we are destroying, something much more effective than a blanket cry to 'Save the Wetlands'. Love brings a terrible vulnerability, and, by risking intimacy, he has opened himself to pain. The gift of this book is in sharing that intimacy with us, letting us immerse ourselves in these worlds that we are rapidly losing.

David Gessner from the Boston Globe